Dean Mimi Sheller to present at International Symposium, Mainz University Germany

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Dean of the Global School, Mimi Sheller, will present "Producing ‘People’ through Moving, Fixing, Parting, and Commoning: Towards a Mobile Theory of Human Differentiation." on Friday, December 6th in Germany at JGU Mainz. This event is part of the larger human differentiation conference: Sorting People into Kinds, Perspectives on Human Differentiation. Her mobility and infrastructures talk is being given alongside academic scholars Anthony Appiah, NYU, Alondra Nelson, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ, Loïc Wacquant, UC Berkeley, and Eviatar Zerubavel, Rutgers University, NJ.

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Mimi Sheller

Professor, The Global School

Dr. Mimi Sheller is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of Mobility Studies and Caribbean Studies, and former Dean of The Global School at WPI (2021-2026). In 2026-2027 she will be on sabbatical and will be a Fulbright Specialist at the University of Sao Paulo, Br [...]